Entries from January 2009

January 24, 2009

Business Model Innovation in the Arts

The Economist: Musicians are finding clever ways to pay for the tools of their trade (premium content)
This is an article I read back in 2006 but somehow failed to post about until now. I remember being particularly interested in this article because of how musicians have managed to utilize a technique in raising fund–one that [...]

January 24, 2009

The Art of Building Whatever

Dead air, or air that does not move, provides the same or perhaps nearly the same insulating characteristics of a vacuum. This is the reason why Styrofoam is such a good insulator: it’s not the material, but the dead air that the material traps, that produces excellent insulation. This is the same principle being exploited [...]

January 22, 2009

new media + old business model = ???

DISCLAIMER: I’ve no direct connections with Inquirer.net or the Philippine Daily Inquirer and these opinions are based on nothing more than an outsider’s point of view. Feel free to read on while taking it with a grain of salt. Would be good if you could comment on it too.
Interesting news about how Inquirer.net is folding [...]

January 3, 2009

Thoughts on Entrepreneurship – A Year Later

So it’s been more than a year since I finished my postgrad and it’s almost a year since I started working as product manager for my current employer. What has changed since then? A lot.
First off, I want to start by describing what my job is all about since I’ve found that a number of [...]